COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1042

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1080

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1114

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1138

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1169

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1185

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1100

Name the sections present in data division.

1190

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1056

Define in-line perform?

1 2170

What is the use of intialize verb?

1197

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1104

Define cobol?

1341

What are different data types in cobol?

1249

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1139

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What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

1132

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1266

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

1973

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1056

Describe the cobol database components?

1136

What are the pertinent COBOL

2526

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1165

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1037

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7780

How can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1056

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1080

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1150

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1142

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1396

What is length is cobol?

1070

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